Dr. Airton Leonardo received his medical degree, and completed an Internal Medicine Residency at Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. His internal medicine training was followed by a Critical Care Residency at Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo. He received additional training in adult critical care, trauma, and neurocritical care at University of Toronto, from 2011 to 2014, where he also completed a fellowship in Quality Improvement and Patients Safety. In 2017, he was granted a PhD in Science from the Department of Neurology and Neurosciences at Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

He has 42 peer-reviewed publications and supervised numerous fellows, residents and students.

Currently, Dr. Airton Leonardo is a Senior Consultant in the ICU/HDU SQCCCRC.